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<h1 class="topictitle1">Introduction</h1>
<div><div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">About the Application</h4><p>Nutanix provides an integrated solution with the physical infrastructure (Nutanix hyper-converged server) in terms of hardware and the virtual infrastructure (Nutanix AHV virtualization) in terms of software.</p>
<p>Nutanix Prism is a management and monitoring tool provided by Nutanix. It provides a unified management interface to simplify data center O&amp;M. Nutanix Prism includes the Prism Element (PE) platform and Prism Central (PC) platform, which manage a single cluster and multiple clusters, respectively. For more information, visit the Nutanix official website.</p>
<p>The <span>OceanProtect</span> supports comprehensive protection for Nutanix VM data. With the deployed client, the <span>OceanProtect</span> provides data protection functions, such as backup, replication, archiving, and restoration. The <span>OceanProtect</span> controls the backup and restoration processes and exchanges data based on the client for data protection.</p>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Objects to Be Protected</h4><p>The <span>OceanProtect</span> provides protection for Nutanix VM data, including VM operating systems (OSs), application files, user data, and configuration information.</p>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Backup and Restoration Granularity</h4><p>The <span>OceanProtect</span> can back up and restore Nutanix VM data based on different granularities.</p>
<ul><li>Backup granularity<p>VM level: The entire VM is backed up.</p>
</li><li>Restoration granularity<ul><li>VM level: The entire VM is restored.</li><li>File level: One or multiple files in a disk are restored.</li></ul>
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